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M. JEANSON COMBINED RAKE AND BINDING APPARATUS Filed July 31, 1925 3 Sheets-Sheet 1 Sept. 25, 1928.

M. JEANSON COMBINED RAKE AND BINDING APPARATUS Filed July 51, 1925 3 Shuts-Shoe? 3 Sept. 25, 1928. 1,685,163

M. JEANS ON COMBINED RAKE AND BINDING APPARATUS Filed July 31, 1925 5 Sheets-Sheet Patented Sept. 25, 1923.

; v UNITED STATES MARI JEANSOIT, OE ETRELLES, FRANCE.

COMBINED BAKE AH D BIlil'DliliiGaAEPARATUS.

Application filed July 31, 1925, Serial No. 47,358, and in France July 31, 1924.

' The question of the proper baling of fodder, and principally of hay, is becoming more ditlicult byreason of the lack of skilled labour and of the fatigue occasioned by the hand baling operation.

Known types of hand baling machines are in use, but although skilled labour is not required for their operation, there is no diminution in the number of persons employed. As concerns baling press, while their use may be justified for purposes of transportation, they are not to be recommended for farm or other local use by reason of their grea cost and also of the imperfect state of the fodder which isthus prepared when it comes to be employed. i

The problem to be solved thus consists in the suitable construction of a machine which will take up the hay which is left upon the ground after the use of the mowing or the hay making machine and will form it into bales, without requiring any intermediate or separate handling.

With the successive operations of such a machine, it will not be necessary to stack up the hay, or in other words the hay can be taken up after the stacks or piles have been taken apart and the hay is spread upon the ground in preparation for the baling process.

In my invention, I obtain all the aforesaid features by the combination of a certain number of devices which may however be cmployed separately or in a suitable number in machines of the same type and for like purposes. y

The devices which I employ are as follows:

1. A general machine it aims Which is mounted upon two driving wheels adapted for travel upon the ground;

2. A rake properly so called which is open at the rear and serves to take up the hay from the ground;

A lifting device or elevator with continuous operation, which removes the hay from therake and discharges it at an upper level;

4. An entraining and pressing device for the hay, with intermittent drive, upon which the hay delivered by the elevator accumulates during the periods of stoppage, this hay being then drawn forward, as well as the hay which is brought during the operation period,

the same being piled upon a suitable rack;

5. A binder consisting of one or more needies, together with suitable tying means, as

in the known binder; the motion of the said binder is alternated with the motion of the said entraining device, and these two movements continue without interruption;

6. A device controlling the succession movements of the entraining device and the binder;

7. An appa 'atus from drawing in the rows of hay,which is disposed at the side of the ma chine and adapted to separate the hay into rows or lines, either immediately before it is taken up, or when the preceding row is taken up, or both of these methods may be employed concurrently.

The appended drawings show by way of example an en'ibodiment or my said .1 nvention.

Fig. l is a side elevation of the machine and Fig. 2 a plan view. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of an elevating claw, with its attaching and controlling devices. Fig. l is a plan view of the apparatus for d 'awing in the rows of hay. Fig. 5 is a detail of the alternate control of the entraining device and the binder. Figure 6 is a front elevation. Figure '7' is an enlarged detail of one of the teeth.

In principle, a main frame 1 of suitable shape andcenstruction is mounted on two carrying wheels 2 and 3 adapted to travel on the ground. Upon the said frame is mounted a trough 4; consisting of a bottom part 5 and two vertical sides (5 and 7', the hay which is to be baled is circulated through the said trough.

The rake properly so called is mounted at the front part and consists of three sections.

The middle section 8 comprises teeth whereof each consists of various members pivoted together; the front member 9 is consolidated by a support 10 and rests upon the ground 1n order to take up and elevate the hay, whilst the rear member 12 conducts it into the trough 4;. This characteristic disposition serves to maintain the hay at the proper distance and to avoid as far as possible all contact with the cross bars 13 of the rake, which would produce clogging. i

The two lateral sections 14: and 15 of the rake consist of teeth of different lengths which are spread outwardly and whose combination forms a collecting device for throwing the hay at the border upon the middle section. The three sections, 8, let and 15 are connected with the main frame by the rods 16 and 17 whose attaching point 18 is situated farther forward than the points of the rake teeth, so that the device will clear all obstacles and will not bend'up. The chains are attached to the main frame and serve to maintain the rake teeth when the device is lifted, while affording the necessary elasticity :lor following the undulations ol the ground.

The hay elevating device consists of a plurality oi claws or rake teeth 19 connected together by the common front cross pieces 20 which areli ivotally mounted on the sprocket chains 21 by the suitable links 22; said chains are actuated by the sprocket wheels 23 and 2d, the wheel 24 being a driving wheel. Each the claws 19 is provided on either side with lers 25 ad ted to roll in the lateral guides the latter are so disposed as to form a cam 2:? which .serves for the removal oil the hay from the teeth 19 by a movement perpendicular to the direction of motion of the teeth, in 'jJl'der to prevent the hay om bci taken up during the back motion of the said teeth.

r I The teeth Idextend througl'i the flooring 62,

passing through the slots ()3 provided for the purpose and the guides 64- extending to the rear as as the binding device and thus n'raintaining the hay above the said trough.

T ie deviceconstituting the hay elevator is mounted on a secondary irameQS pivotingon the driving shattSO by means of the control lever 31, so as to change the section of travel ofthe hay between the elevator, the rakes and the trough. The side members 6 and T of the trough 4 may be movable rearwardly to ad just thewidth of the bald 29 are flexible means connecting the, teeth with the frame 28 The device ior enti ining and pressing the hay disposedat the u} p er'p art of the elevator g The gear wheels 3e are andare thus connected together, wlnlstthe and below the hay and succeeding the said elevator, is or like construction; however its motion is not continuous'but intermittent. It consists of the teeth or claws 82, in variable number, forming a rake; said teeth are disposed on the chains 33 actuated by gear 7 wlieelsg lw-hose ratios are such that-each rake of 'tlie iti-r'st 'entraining device, is at a suitable distance from said teetn thus facilitating the separation. of the tray.

rear shatt '36 and the rakes themselves are divided into various sections 37' (F g; 2),

whereby .the teeth 38 of the binder will be enabled to properly surround the halo without being obliged to traverse'the hay, by passing to the rear of the rake teeth 32 and across the shafts 36.

The shaft 5 is actuated by the shaft of the wheel 24 of the elevator by means of the chain '39 and the reversing wheels 39. Each-sectionof the rakes is guided by the guideways 'lllserving' as cams at the exit of the teeth, so

that the latter will move outwardly in a direction perpendicular, to that of the guideway without entraining it. They may be made in several parts to facilitate the conlzeyed to the shaft strnction, and the side members -l-1. oi the said trough will serve a channel for the bay.

The pointed members or needles 38 are actuated by the chain l3, which is driven by the wheel ll; keyed to the shalt 2i and actuutin the wheel 45, or by other suitable means. The device compri:.aes two roller ciut' llts H; which are adapted to drive either the needles 3b to term the bale, or the rakes 2-32; the latter are stopped during the operation of the said needles, and the hay delivered by the elevator will accumulate between the rakes of the entrainingdevice when the latter stopped, this being only for a short time in all cases. The intern'iittently operating clutches 41:6 are controlled by the pressing lever l? having various arms 4:53, the rod 49 and the pivoting lever 50. An adjustable spring determiner; the pi ire of the lever 47 and the degree of compression of the bale.

By this arrangement of the entraining and compressing device, I am enabled to keep the elevator cl car at all times, to further the separation of the hay and to press it to ether immediately above the said needles, dis 'ibuting the work of compression upon a longer period than usual, the halo is tied during the inoperative period of the said entraining device, thus obviating all shocks during the work. To enable the tree motion oil the needle around the bale of hay, l dispose upon the shaft (55 the compressing and separating devices, compr' -ing an arm 67 for compressing the hay during the travel oi the needle. and, a that portion (38 which separates the halo of hay from the succeeding bale, concurrently with the back of the needles; said parts are con-- trolled'by a cam (39 mounted on the shaft or" the binding device, or iii-any other suitable manner.

' The arrangement for drawin in the rows or lines olihay consists ot a disk 51 provl at the lower part with the lceth 52 which have a suitable shape and are preferably tr angular, these being disposed in a circular row 53, said device being connected by tho arms'ij l to a shaft '55 the rod 56 serves to connect the apparatus with the machine 'lrume. Said rod is slidable in two guides 57 and 58 for its suitable adjirstment according to the width of therows oi hay to be (ZUllt-utmil. The device is set when in the operative position suitable means. The shaft is inclined position of the shaft it being taken up sage of the latter in a given field; the second and the following rows being fern ed by the second apparatus, which will be sullicient for the entire work as soon as the first trip has been made. if the hay is not to be separated into lines in advance, the front apparatus nearest the rake will. be alone empioyed.

The pressure of the dish on the ground may be regulated by means of spring, not shown,

acting on the rod 56, and should it be desired to avoid contact between the disk and the ground to obviate the collection. of moss, or for like reasons, the dish may be raised by a chain. The disk might be rotated directly from the rake itself, by gearing, chain or belt, or the like. i

The machine is completed by lever 59 for raising the teeth of the rake, as well as a lever (30 for raising the elevator by means of the chain drive 61 of the latter, also by the wheel 3 and by a lever 71 controlling the said collecting disk. A seat may be provided at the rear to facilitate the driving of the machine and the operating of the levers.

Should it be desired to employ the machine solely for the baling of hay in the lined po sition, a gear table 62 is disposed at the front of the main frame and serves to deliver the hay to the elevator, the whole device being driven either by a horse whim, or by a suitable motor with fixed and loose pulleys mounted on the shaft 30; the rake is now inoperative and may be eliminated.

Obviously, my said machine is susceptible of other arrangements in detail without departing from the principle of the invention, which is independent of the shapes, outlines, sizes and material of the several elements of construction, the apparatus hereinbefore described being only one embodiment of the said invention, and for example the said bal- 1 ing apparatus alone may be fitted to threshing machines in order to bind the straw discharged therefrom, or the like.

I claim:

1. A combined alre and binding apparatus comprising a main frame carrying wheels, central teeth. composed of various members pivoted together, a pivot shaft for the teeth which forms part of a frame pivoting on the machine frame, the axis of pivotation being situated forwardly of the points of the said teeth, lateral teeth of different lengths forming a collecting element situated within the machine frame, a pivot shaft for the said teeth forming part of a frame pivoting on the machine frame and situated forwardly of the said teeth, chains connecting each group of teeth with the machine frame, and means for raising the said pivoting frames.

2. A combined rake and binding appa ztus comprising one or more rotatable disks, teeth disposed thereon, rods on which the disks are rotatably mounted, guideways in which the said rods are slidable, means for setting the said rods in the guideways, and means for lifting the said disks.

Signed at Paris, in the county of Seine, France, this Qdth day of June, A. D. 1925.

MARI J EANSON. 

